ENTOMOLOGIST AND BOTANIST. 



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Entomological Record for 1869. — "We leai-n 

 fi'om the Editor that the Record for 1869 will be 

 out early iu the spring. This work is published 

 at considerable loss to the Naturalists' Book 

 Agency at Salem, Mass., and every entomolo- 

 gist should encourage the undertaking. 



Pear Ciltire for Proi'it. — B. P. T.Quinn — 

 Press of the Tribune Association, N. Y. — A. 

 work which, though it has called forth some 

 severe criticism, every pear-grower should have. 

 We consider that portion on the diseases and 

 insects of the pear, as singularly incomplete. 



Small FRurr Recordku and Cottage Gard- 

 ner. — A. M. Purdy (successor to Purdy & 

 Johnson) of Palmyra, N. Y., has sent us copies 

 of the above monthly. It is spicy and practi- 

 cal, and we hope the energetic editor will not 

 fail of success. 



Le Naturaliste Canadikn. — Vol. II, No. 1 

 of this ably edited little monthly, comes to us 

 ' in a new dress, with a much embellished cover, 

 handsomer type, and a marked improvement 

 in the character of the engravings. M. I'Abbc 

 Provaucher is doing a good work iu popular- 

 izing the delightful study of Natural History, 

 and we sincerely wish him success in his under- 

 taking. 



Intelligence of Animals. — From the French 

 of Ernest Menault — Charles Scribner & Co., 

 publishers. This is a highly interesting little 

 book, and the author is benignant and sensible 

 enough to accord, with Montaigue, Reaumur, 

 La Fontaine, Leroy, ( 'uvier, Spence, aud others, 

 a degree of reason and intelligence to the lower 

 animals. The work is fully illustrated, and is 

 full of amusing and instructive reading. 



Illinois State ENTOMOLO(iisT. — Just as our 

 last form is going to press, we learn that Dr. 

 Wm. LeBaron, of Geneva, Kane county, Ills., 

 has been appointed to the oflice of State Ento- 

 mologist, made vacant by the death of our late 

 associate. Well done. Governor Palmer I Our 

 Illinois friends have good cause to rejoice at the 

 appointment! 



Missouri Reports. — We can yet dispose of a 

 few copies of the First Missouri Entomological 

 Heport, with uncolored plates, for il.OO, or of 

 the Second Report for 75 cents, both separately 

 bound. Citizens of Missouri can obtain the 

 same, bound in with the Agricultural Report, 

 by sending 50 cents for postage, to C. "W. Murt- 

 feldt, 612 North Fifth street, St. Louis, Mo. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



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 3 be ninied , will pict 



NO'icK —Such of our corr»'8pondpi 

 aflorii'ud. sniill I'OlIccIioiii of insccta 

 if uuy ot tlie 8p«cie8 scut ure from 01 



uuy particular loeiitit.v are of eapecial iuterest, as thruwiui; 



. .. , species. But to make theui of 



I requisite that «e know for certain whether or not oil the 

 insect! HI any particular list come from that particular locality, and if not , 

 from what locality they do come. 



We have lately received several small collections of insects to be i 

 and have, so far as our time w. uld allow, aiiswerrd by letter, bccausi 



and hercatlcr 



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the fteiieral leader. ltre«iuires 



found M least tv 



dry and uninteresting _ ^ 



icientiously iianietlie many lots of insects that reach 



can take no notice of them, unless they arc properly 

 ^„i I .,: — — d the locality Riven in which thev were 



a of the KntuMul- 

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Insects Named — Miss Marion Hohai-t, Port Byron, 

 Hh. — 'J'he buttertiy which you reared iVom nettle - 

 fecdii>g larvio is Grapta comma, llarr., or tlie (.'oniiiia 

 Butterfly. Mr. Kdwards long since found the lar\;c of 

 this species feeding on the Broad-leaved Nettle iu the 

 Catskill Mountains, though Dr. Harris bred his speci- 

 mens iVom hop-feeding larva". The species is of quite 

 uncommon occuri-ence with us, and we have only met 

 witli one specimen in seven years" collecting. There 

 are four other North American species belonging to this 

 genus, rxame\y, pro<jne, J-albiiM,fai{/iue, and i/iterroga- 

 tioiiis, which greatly resemble one another in the gen- 

 eral appearance of the upper surfaces. We may at 

 some future time talte occasion to explain and illustrate 

 the distinguishing features whidi separate these species. 

 No. 2, which you bred from a "black bristly cater- 

 pillar, with reddtsh -brown transverse bands on the 

 body," is a small ^ of the Great Wliite Leopard Moth 

 (Ecpatiiheria scribonia, lliibn. = Pkalana oculaiinsiiiui , 

 .Siu. and Abb.) No. 3, bred from hazel-feeding larva', 

 is the Chain-dotted (ieometer (Geomftra catenaria), 

 which also feeds on the Wood-waxen , otherwise known 

 as Dyer's, Green or Dyer's Genista. No. 4, the large 

 black tumble-bug with a rhinoceros- like horn on the 

 head, and which was disinterred at a depth of two leet 

 in frozen ground, is ^ .Vylon/c/m safi/rus, Fabr No. .'>, 

 Arctia rirgo, Sm . and Abb. No. 6, Cotalpa lanigera, 

 Linn. No. 7, feeding upon Ha/.el leaves, is Sfrioa 

 respertina, Schonli. No. 8, on Milk-weed, is Tetraopei 

 o-maculatm, Hald. No. !), C'arahis eihosus. .Say. You 

 should always pin your beetles through the right wing- 

 cover near the shoulder, and not through thescutel, 

 or through the left wing-cover. , 



Supposed Trout Eneiu)- — //«</. Mather, Jloneoi/e 

 Falls, N. }'.— The .single small case which you send, and 

 of which you noticed great numbers a few weeks ago 

 with the head and legs of the bearer protruding, and 

 climbing upon some spawn which you brought from 

 Mr. Green's— came safely to hand, but without an 

 occupant. It is the case of a Caddiee-fly larva, and 

 looks much like those known to be made iu Europe by 

 a genus of these Hies {Serico«toma) comprising small 

 .species. The small dusky flies, with long antenna', two 

 somewhat similar caudal appendages and strongly nerved 

 wings, which flies arc very thick on the snow around 

 the ponds which do not freeze, breed in the water, as 

 you rightly conjecture They belong to the Per/a 

 family, and the species in question is Capnia minima, 

 Newp., or in English, the Diminished Capnia. The 

 larvie of these insects live in the water, and in general 

 form resemble the flies except in wanting wings, and 

 the pupa is said to be also active. The other two insects 

 which were enclosed with these flies, and which were 



